Businesses Often Opposed to Government Beg for Its Return

[Purveyor]

By Jim Snyder, Brian Wingfield and Jonathan D. Salant - Oct 3, 2013

It seems for U.S. businesses, the only thing worse than too much government is no government at all.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce deployed its army of lobbyists to stress the importance to Capitol Hill lawmakers of ending the first partial government shutdown in 17 years. Across town, top Wall Street executives gathered at the White House and warned of the consequences if no resolution was found to the next crisis, a potential default on federal debt.

“This requires compromise by both sides,” Blair Latoff Holmes, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based Chamber of Commerce, which represents companies including Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Ford Motor Co. (F), said in an e-mail. “We will continue to hold discussions with lawmakers urging them to address this and stop kicking the can down the road.”

Pressure from the business community has worked in the past to forge compromise. In 2012, the Chamber of Commerce fought to secure the reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which helps foreign buyers purchase American exports, after Tea Party Republicans favoring limited government threatened to block an extension of the bank’s charter.

The Chamber also lobbied to end the 1996 government shutdown, which lasted a total of 21 days.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/businesses-often-opposed-to-government-beg-for-its-return.html

[gopiscrap]

1. yeah how about that you corporate mother fucking bastards

you created the tea party and all that faux (paid for) outrage....now deal with it assholes! Rein in your teabagger morons.

[tosh]

2. “This requires compromise by both sides,”

BULLSHIT!!!

[strategery blunder]

3. The Chamber fails to recognize that if Democrats compromise, we'll be right back here

in 1-2 years, as the Cruz Kamikaze Party comes back for more.

The Democrats are doing the responsible thing by saying "You pulled the same stunt in 2011, we compromised for the good of the country, and now you are back with even more outlandish demands, forcing the country into the same situation you did then. Therefore we cannot and we will not reward temper-tantrum behavior because it must end."

The onus is on the Republicans. The Chamber needs to get past the "both sides" false equivalence bullshit.

I have no problem with them telling a certain speaker to put the booze down and hold an up-or-down vote, however.

[kestrel91316]

4. I think the USDA should shut down and stop inspecting slaughterhouses/packing plants.

This would be over in 5 minutes.

[NuclearDem]

5. Oh ho ho MAN, go FUCK yourselves, CoC!

No, seriously, go do it. Fuck yourselves, and maybe we'll consider taking you seriously.